You may have noticed that I got really quiet after posting almost every day. Well, I was participating in the “March Madness” writing marathon over at Forward Motion. If you’ve been keeping an eye on my progress bar at the top of the site, you may have noticed it moving quite a bit. My goal was to write 1000 words a day for 7 days, and I pulled it off! That means I pretty much doubled my daily output, and didn’t miss a single day for seven days. That’s including working about 50 hours this week, and spending 2+ hours a day cleaning the house. Phew! I hope to keep it up, but I’m giving myself a lower goal for this weekend as it’s a bit crazy.
I hope to have more detailed reviews, but in case I don’t get to
it I finished a few books since my last post. First, I finished
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Wow. It was an amazing book filled with surprises of
various kinds.
More recently I finished listening to
Ender’s Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition by Orson Scott Card. I’ve always wanted to read this,
and my friend Matt had
recommended it. When I realized that Audible had the majority of
the series available unabridged I decided to give it a try. I
really enjoyed it. I’ve read some of Card’s books on writing, but
this is the first novel of his that I’ve read. It’s the story of a
young boy being schooled in the art of warfare to fight a war
against an alien race he has only seen on propaganda films. Ender’s
story is filled with interesting and fully realized characters. I
thought I saw the ending coming, and while the events I suspected
did happen, it was not the ending at all. Great stuff!
Half way through
Ender’s Game I knew I’d want more, so I already had
Speaker for the Dead
on my iPod and started it after taking some time to
digest the ending of Game.
More soon, unless I’m busy, then more later.
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